694F Comments

• students learn a lot just from doing the project
  • how to work with non-technical types
  • how animation is really done
  • the talent that art students bring to the project
  • working in a group
  • working on a project where the program is not the product
• 4 progress reports plus on final presentation
  • storyboard
  • revised storyboard
  • stills
  • sample motions
• CAPSTONE?
  • written component is the web page they have to maintain
  • several oral group presentations. Not every group member has to speak each one, but each group member needs to speak a couple of times.
• grading
  • no homeworks, no quizzes
  • I don't evalute the coding - I had them turn in a copy this last time
  • final during 10th week; final animation during finals week
  • how to evaluate group project individual behavior?
    • w/o penalizing false starts
    • w/o promoting competition or resentment among group members
    • have Art student evaluate CIS students??
• need to reign in Art students a bit - need to highlight CIS student work more
• for ABET, could give them a specific disk area to put their web pages, stills, animations
• syllabus needs to be updated: we don't cover human figure animation (that's my 788); add motion capture; expand rigid body dynamics
• course number? 682? need 7xx for capstone?